Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-06-17
NEIGHRORHOOD NOTES.

-S.anyard, the Youngstown mur
derer, was found guilty in the first
degree last Thursday.
Cameron Harvy's trial for mur.
der began at Beaver last Friday, the
first case of the kind in that county
for eighteen years.
Two Mormon elders have open.
ed missionary station at Monrovla,
Lawrence county, and have succeed,
ed in making several converts.
The free delivery system has
been extended to Meadville and War
ren-the former by population and
the latter by increase of postal busl
ness.
1t has been decided by the color
ed citizens of Meadville that they
will held a grand celebration Aug. ?,
and Hon. John r. Lynch, of Missis-
sippi, will be the orator of the day.
The New Castle Guardian says
that DR.. Magofiio, of Mercer. who
was called to New Wilmington to
consult, pronounces of the prevailing
diseases there and elsewhere over the
county, not measles but a species of
small pox.
-Soloman Meyer, q well known
and wealthy mill ownersof Williams
port, aged 66 years, has been served
With a summons in suit for breach
of promise, brought by Miss frankie
Holbrook, for $50, 1000.
Thomas MartindelI, of Washing
ton county, has sold $4,000 pounds
Of wool for 2Ga cents a pound, after
holding some of it for seven years
and at one time refusing SO cents for
it.
An Ashtabula county paper
gives the following account of a
strange freak of lightning in that
county: An apple tree standing
some little distance from the house of
James Brown, was struck and shat,
tered quite badly. A wire clothes
line connects the house and the tree,
and the lightning follc wed the line
from the tree to the house, where ii
entered at pantry window, which
was raised about two inches. 1t left
no trace around the window, but tore
the door of a cupboard which stood
near by, to splinters, and moved the
whole cupboard about two inches
from the wall. Some Of the knives
in the cupboard were melted, and
here it seems to have lost its force, as
no further damage was done and its
exit could not be traced.
Some people in this town, says
the Sharon Herald are experiencing
a novel sensation just now-they are
actually having to pay their taxes, a
thing they were never known to do
before. Collector j. L. Miller was
instructed some time ago by the
school board to proceed against sew.
eral who have been earning good
wages, SIS to $50 a week, for years,
and sending several children to school
but would not pay q cent of tax. And
they are only paying now because it
is either pay or go to jail.
"A strange incident has happen.
ed in Armstrong county of a brother
and sister living near each other for
twenty years and not knowing it.
The sister is Mrs Rev. G. Focht, of
New Salem, formerly Miss Turner
and the brother was Mr.. G. w
Turner, of Brookville. Twenty years
ago Mr.. Turner was living at Kellers
burg, Armstrong county, Pa, and a.
that time Rev. G.. Focht stopped at
the hotel for dinner on his way with
bis family to New Salem after annua
Conference, Rev. Mr.. Focht nor Mr.
Turner knowing nothing of eacf
other being in the country. 1t wa:
reported that Mr.. Turner had been
killed in the war, and when he came
home he learned that his sister ha(
moved West somewhere. A few
days ago Mr.. Focht was in Brookvillt
where he was introduced to Mr.
Turner. In a conversation the two
men discovered they were brothers
in-law. Mr.. Turner went home with
Mr.. Focht and there met his sister for
the drst time in twenty years. Th'
meeting was joyful one -Kittannin.
Press.